Brazilian soccer celebrity Pele‘s daughters informed his followers Sunday that their father’s well being was not at critical threat, saying they’re assured he’ll return dwelling when he recovers from a respiratory an infection. The 82-year-old has been hospitalized in Sao Paulo since Tuesday amid ongoing remedies for colon most cancers, which was first recognized in September 2021. Pele “is sick, he is elderly, but at this point he is hospitalized for a lung infection,” Kely Arantes Nascimento informed the TV channel Globo.

“And when he gets better, he’ll come home,” she mentioned.

“We are not saying goodbye in the hospital,” she insisted, explaining that the respiratory sickness was the results of a Covid-19 an infection the sporting icon had contracted three weeks in the past.

Her sister, Flavia Arantes Nascimento, denied stories from the day by day Folha de S.Paulo and ESPN Brazil that Pele was not responding to chemotherapy and was now receiving solely “palliative care.”

She informed the information channel that her father was not within the intensive care unit, however an everyday ward, and that the household was “tired of receiving condolences” and that the most cancers remedy is “delivering results.”

“It’s really unfair that they’re saying he’s at the terminal stage. It’s not that, believe us,” she mentioned.

Earlier Sunday, followers of Pele — born Edson Arantes do Nascimento — congregated exterior the Sao Paulo hospital the place the three-time world champion is staying.

More than 100 devotees prayed for the restoration of the person broadly thought to be the best footballer of all time.

“We are a spiritual force” praying for the sporting idol as he wages “one of the toughest battles of his life,” one fan, Marcos Bispo dos Santos, informed AFP.

Doctors at Sao Paulo’s Albert Einstein Hospital mentioned Saturday that Pele remained “stable.”

Pele “has had a good response to care without any worsening in the clinical picture in the last 24 hours,” they mentioned in an announcement.

The star later struck an optimistic observe in an Instagram put up, saying, “My friends, I want to keep everyone calm and positive. I’m strong, with a lot of hope and I follow my treatment as usual.”

On Sunday, his followers stood principally in silence exterior the clinic within the Morumbi neighborhood of western Sao Paulo, holding a banner bearing a picture of a youthful Pele and marked “Torcida Joven” (“Young Fans”).

“Long live the king!” mentioned a number of posters pasted on partitions close to entrances to the hospital.

Around midday, the followers shaped a circle and held palms as they recited an “Our Father.”

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